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I had ice cream for dinner the other night. Life’s too short, right? Then, I had ice cream for dinner again last night. Wait a minute. Ice cream for dinner two nights in one week? This could be a problem. To make matters worse, I had fish and chips (baked potato) three times during this […]

Hanging out at the beach with my boy. I’m pretty proud of myself: I forced myself to go into the ocean, even though I was petrified.  (Click here if you want to know why.) Okay, so the water was only up to my knees, but I have to chip at my phobias a little bit at […]

It took me five minutes to make this album cover, a few months to fine-tune the song to get it just like I wanted it, and a lifetime of sadness to be able to come up with these words. It just came out today on all the platforms.

I got the master of my song today. It was an eerie feeling listening to it for the first time. I say “my song” but I’m simply the songwriter. Dallas Jack, the producer, worked his magic with guitar, bass, backup vocals, and computer. Ali Nicole Munoz added her sweet voice and afterward, we got the […]

Yesterday, we toured the Ryman. I knew nothing beforehand about this incredible building built in 1892. I only knew it had been mentioned a couple times in the show “Nashville.” It was an eerie and yet comforting feeling to walk onto that stage and imagine all the musicians who have stood in that same spot, […]

Two years ago, today, I was conquering my fear of jet skis. Jet skis is just one fear of mine in a long list of fears I have. If you think I’m kidding, you can read a partial list here. This past week, I wouldn’t say I exactly conquered my fear of singing in front […]

I finally, finally got around to accomplishing the one and only thing I had on my list of things to do in Nashville—besides recording a song and making a little music video, of course—take a picture in front of The Bluebird Café. The only thing I knew about this place was that it featured in […]

Waiting for the carillon (which is a “set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard,” according to Merriam-Webster) to go off in 2 minutes. What can I say? We are easily entertained.

On my cancer blog, I refer to songs by well-known singers and songwriters: one has been on American Idol, one of the lead vocalists in another band had a movie made about his life and how his famous song came to be… Then, there’s little old me. I wrote a song to deal with a tricky […]

We went out to dinner with the producer and the vocalist now that the project is done on my end…that and the fact that they are just plain old fun to hang around with. During our meal, they invited me to come back to Nashville for a co-write session sometime. I said, “Uh, suuuure, but, […]